Well, it’s been a while since I updated by blog, and I guess it’s because writing in French just takes more time. And time is money…So I’ve decided to create an English blog too. This way if I feel like blogging (but don’t have much time) I can just do a quickie in English. ;) But I don’t want to give up the French idea, so I’ll try to keep that updated too…
So let’s do a weekend-update, shall we?
Friday night was the awesome company Christmas party. (In Sweden you can still say Christmas.) Anyway, the office parties started at about 1:30pm on Friday afternoon. Then, at 3pm, big coach buses were waiting to whisk us away to Lisebergshallen. (Liseberg is Sweden’s biggest amusement park and is located right here in Gothenburg. We were in a big theater. The park attractions are closed, but the park itself has been turned into a big Christmas market for the season.) Anyhoo, we were treated to champagne, chocolate, and a great show. Afterwords we went across the street to Svenskamässan (Swedish Convention Center) where we enjoyed dinner, loads more to drink, more entertainment, and lots of dancing. I think that there were about 2,500 of us there from work. :) I danced until 1am, at which time P. picked me up on his way home from work.
On Saturday P and I went up to Bengtsfors for a traditional Julbord or ”Christmas Table.” We dinned at a fancy mansion turned restaurant and hotel. The food was great.
On Sunday we hung out, ate ginger cookies, drank glögg (hot wine,) and discussed our wedding/catering problem.
This morning I had to drop off our car at the workshop again. We recently discovered that they didn’t do any work under the car like they were supposed to (after the wheel incident earlier this fall.) Anyway, they’re going to fix it now and we won’t need to pay another deductible or anything. So I brought my poor baby down to the workshop and was given a tiny Opal to use for the week. The Opal is really old and doesn’t have power-steering. It’s noisy too. Plus they didn’t put any gas in it. I already miss my car!
It was still very dark at about 9am this morning, and it’s getting darker by the minute now (current time: 3:09pm.) It has been raining non-stop since October and the weather has been unusually warm, often above 10 degrees Celsius! (40 degrees F? Not sure)
I can’t wait to leave for Spokane next Wednesday! It will be 3 fun weeks of vacation and wedding planning!
So let’s do a weekend-update, shall we?
Friday night was the awesome company Christmas party. (In Sweden you can still say Christmas.) Anyway, the office parties started at about 1:30pm on Friday afternoon. Then, at 3pm, big coach buses were waiting to whisk us away to Lisebergshallen. (Liseberg is Sweden’s biggest amusement park and is located right here in Gothenburg. We were in a big theater. The park attractions are closed, but the park itself has been turned into a big Christmas market for the season.) Anyhoo, we were treated to champagne, chocolate, and a great show. Afterwords we went across the street to Svenskamässan (Swedish Convention Center) where we enjoyed dinner, loads more to drink, more entertainment, and lots of dancing. I think that there were about 2,500 of us there from work. :) I danced until 1am, at which time P. picked me up on his way home from work.
On Saturday P and I went up to Bengtsfors for a traditional Julbord or ”Christmas Table.” We dinned at a fancy mansion turned restaurant and hotel. The food was great.
On Sunday we hung out, ate ginger cookies, drank glögg (hot wine,) and discussed our wedding/catering problem.
This morning I had to drop off our car at the workshop again. We recently discovered that they didn’t do any work under the car like they were supposed to (after the wheel incident earlier this fall.) Anyway, they’re going to fix it now and we won’t need to pay another deductible or anything. So I brought my poor baby down to the workshop and was given a tiny Opal to use for the week. The Opal is really old and doesn’t have power-steering. It’s noisy too. Plus they didn’t put any gas in it. I already miss my car!
It was still very dark at about 9am this morning, and it’s getting darker by the minute now (current time: 3:09pm.) It has been raining non-stop since October and the weather has been unusually warm, often above 10 degrees Celsius! (40 degrees F? Not sure)
I can’t wait to leave for Spokane next Wednesday! It will be 3 fun weeks of vacation and wedding planning!
1 comment:
How exciting that you'll be on vacation that long! I hope you have a great time and hope to hear about what you're doing too. Miss you lots, ma petite!
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